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Cigar Weekly contributing editor Todd Crandall (sevenmag) shares his experiences of building some home brewing equipment with his friend Nick Assad.

Whenever my friend Nick and I get together, things are usually getting built, repaired or modified in some way. We’ve replaced carburetors on jeeps and Harleys, added onto his house, and barely escaped serious injury and death a few times during some of our weekend soirées. Of course, a few adult malted beverages are consumed along the way. So it would seem a natural progression that at some point the plans for brewing some beer and building the gear necessary would emerge.

Now admittedly, I’m nothing more than a weekend warrior when it comes to welding. But I do pretty well with all the other power tools it takes for a project like this one. Nick, on the other hand, is more than capable of doing the whole project alone (and for the most part he did). He does, after all, live on the premises that houses our new brewery. I've just come over and helped whenever I could.